360° Accessible Book Publishing
In this talk, we will go through some accessibility actions for everyone in the publishing industry.
An inclusive design workflow for teams
In this talk, Scott Vinkle will share his experience while working with Shopify's Flagship Themes team. Scott will explain how he implemented a new team-wide workflow which included accessibility in each aspect of the product creation lifecycle. This resulted in the team shipping highly accessible themes by default.
Trauma-informed Website Design
If a doctor, therapist, or police officer can communicate in a trauma-informed way, why can’t a website?
In this session, you'll gain practical tips, free tools, and places for further learning. Walk away with concrete plans to make your website more trauma-informed.
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
In this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
The technical challenges for minority languages can seem insurmountable; research & development is often market driven, and by definition, minority languages can’t promise large profits to Big Tech and so are overlooked. However, in this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
How to be inclusive to neurodiverse people
First there’s an overview of the different neurodiverse conditions, then we talk about why inclusion is important, then finally you’ll be given 7 tips on how you can be more inclusive. Interaction is optional and if you’d like to join in, please bring a pen and paper.
The indisputable truth about accessibility
Almost 50% of 1.5 million Dutch people use one or more of digital accessibility settings. In my talk I will share the insights and learnings from this research. This helped me to convince others to focus on a11y from the beginning. Now it will help you, too.
Web Accessibility for Speech Recognition users
In this session, we’ll figure out how speech recognition supports different accessibility techniques and what coding practices we should avoid. Additionally, we’ll learn about best practices for enhancing user experiences for speech recognition users.